Intern Strategic Growth and Capture

SAIC•Reston, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Strategic Growth and Capture Intern works alongside SAIC Business Development executives, Capture Managers, Solution Architects, and Competitive Intelligence analysts. The role provides hands-on exposure to the federal procurement lifecycle, strategic market positioning, competitive intelligence, and proposal development. The internship is onsite in Reston, Virginia. The intern conducts market research and competitive assessments across defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets; supports capture strategy and pursuit activities; contributes to proposal operations; and maintains pipeline analytics and growth operations data. At the conclusion of the internship, the intern researches, develops, and presents a high-visibility Growth Capstone Project to SAIC Growth leadership and Business Group Growth Officers.

Requirements

Be a current college student with two or more years of coursework in a business-related major.
U.S. citizenship is required.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
Comfort working with data and presentations.
Strong analytical, research, and written communication skills.
Demonstrated organization, teamwork, and/or leadership experience.
Ability to work independently and adapt to changing priorities and deadlines.

Nice To Haves

Interest in federal government, defense, space, or intelligence markets.

Responsibilities

Conduct market assessments across defense, space, civilian, and intelligence agency pipelines using federal market tools such as GovWin IQ, SAM.gov, FPDS, and USAspending.
Develop competitive landscapes, competitor profiles, and competitive intelligence dossiers, including analysis of traditional defense primes and emerging defense-technology companies.
Synthesize research into executive briefing decks covering customer pain points, budget trajectories, and procurement trends.
Support Capture Managers with pre-award milestones, including opportunity qualification, solutioning, teaming, and price-to-win reviews.
Help develop differentiated value propositions, customer-focused win themes, and mission narratives connecting SAIC technical differentiators to warfighter needs.
Work with partner intelligence leads to analyze teaming agreements, subcontractor capabilities, and small business socio-economic utilization strategies.
Participate in proposal stand-up meetings, storyboarding sessions, and Pink, Red, and Gold Team color reviews.
Help create past-performance matrices, compliance cross-reference tables, and capability cheat-sheets.
Work with Growth Enablement leads to improve capture toolkits, template repositories, and pipeline metrics.
Maintain and audit pursuit health data in Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Help build and maintain Power BI dashboards tracking qualified pipeline value, win rate, bookings forecast, and Bid & Proposal spend.
Research, develop, and present a Growth Capstone Project to SAIC Growth leadership and Business Group Growth Officers at the end of the internship.